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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Assignment #9Due 11/27
The Woes of Ownership

It is no small secret that I often struggle with owning my words. Its and It's have often driven me to madness - I sometimes sit there in the fetal position crying, asking why they both cannot be the same?!

So I want to know more about this simple but so silly rule I always break. I'd also like to know more about multiples. For example, in Psychology, do I say James's Lange's and Cannon's Bard's Theories are difficult to remember, or is it more proper to say James and Lange's and Cannon and Bard's Theories?

http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/using-apostrophes-to-show-possession.html
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp
Each website I visited in search of an answer actually provided me with an answer! For anyone else struggling through the woes of proper apostrophe use (and with the rising cost of an apostrophe these days, you don't want to use any more than you have to), it covers a large amount of rudimentary rules (as in, hardly 3rd grade) that could really clear out some confusion. For my first problem, the difference between its and it's, there is a simple and conclusive answer - 'its' is for ownership, 'it's' is for the contraction of it is. For so long, I have been sideskirting both words in fear of misuse! It's been a nuisance!

Problem number two was slightly more difficult to answer, but there is an answer nonetheless. It seems that when there is a compound subject, like James and Lange, you add the apostrophe after the second subject. So, my original statement should look like this: "James and Lange's and Cannon and Bard's theories are difficult to remember, almost as difficult as remembering the mechanics of grammar.

Of these links, a college student would get the best use out of number 3. While the other two are good, they are also elementary. Number three breaks out the fancy fonts and beige tones, using words like gerund and indicates.Posted bypes44at7:42 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestAssignment #8Due 11/20

http://www.nytimes.com/

The New York Times is my husband. If there were ever a moment I could marry an inanimate item, I'd choose the New York Times. A shimmering statue of our times, it can be purchased classically gray with black smeary print - or, you can visit their website which is sleeker than a greased-up pig (note: I have no idea what that means, but a hick said it to me at work over the summer and I really enjoy using it. Just understand it is a compliment here). The NYTimes's website is engineering to be current and easily navigable.

The site is broken up into three columns, overloading your senses with miles of content that you instantly need to read. As you feel overwhelmed and look for a patch of peace on the site, one may scroll down to the bottom where stylish, entertaining photographs of top stories are held, telling readers "It's okay, you're overwhelmed, come read us!" Their tight but non-intrusive integration with other media like facebook and even blogger really allows people to feel at home and lets the New York Times be shared with whoever you may want to share with.

Lots of youth see newspaper websites and think 'work, boring work', but the New York Times and its current cutting-edge style and social integration could make reading fun again!Posted bypes44at7:42 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, November 13, 2010 Assignment #7Due 11/13


1.) Reid's verbal acumen is so subtle, it's almost invisible - which is why many fans and football pundits don't see it
Language is life, and life is transmitted through language. I must admit - I HATE football and am incredibly biased against anything that pertains to football (the only explainable part of the inexplicable reason of why I hated The Silver Linings Playbook). But to be amazed and interested in something so very football, but so very un-football, I was astounded. The sentence is a work of art, and is one of those moments where you have to look and just admire language and the beautiful things it can create. The use of verbal acumen instead of speech or rhetoric, the use of almost invisible instead of unnoticeable - This sentence would be a Marilyn Monroe if it were human.
2.) And while my habit might be acceptable now, I shudder to think of what will happen when I get older, when I reach the stage where "like" in no longer an appropriate filler word and I will be considered nothing more than an overgrown valley girl.
This quote struck me because of its blatant honesty. It is hard to admit a flaw in oneself, and even harder to realize how your flaw is perceived. Paige's bravery was admirable here, and even more, this message made me realize how casual but academic our board has gotten. We've all become comfortable to share embarrassing things and push our writing in directions we wouldn't normally go (for fear of grade repercussion).
3.) I consider how the date ended (with an ashtray being hurled at my head), to be much less shocking than why the date ended.
I just like this passage because I love to imagine Meyer getting an ashtray hurled at his head. It could only be better if there was cell phone footage of it. This is what he gets for pointing out other people's flaws without being accountable for his own.



Cullman, Paige. "Can't Stop." BlackBoard Learning System. BBVista: Drexel University, 12 Nov. 2010. Web. 13 Nov. 2010.
Meyer, Robert. "Death by Grammar." Ed. Albert Dibartolomeo and Kathleen Volk Miller. The 33rd. Ed. Scott Stein. Vol. 3. Philadelphia: Drexel Group, 2010. 57-60. Print.
Warnock, Scott, and Paula Cohen. "If We Only Grasped How Savvy Andy Was | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/28/2007." Philly.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 Jan. 2007. Web. 24 Nov. 2010. Posted bypes44at8:10 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, November 6, 2010 Assignment #6Due 11/06

Read this first:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/business/media/23southpark.html?_r=1ref=plagiarism

In this piece, South Park's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, admit to stealing lines from an online comedy skit and adding it to their television show. Their defense was to apologize and say, "Its just because we do the show in six days, and were stupid and we just threw it together." Scintillating response...

The South Park writers, in their apology, told the Collegehumor.com skit writers that they thought the joke lied in the ridiculousness of the lines, and not the lines themselves. The Collegehumor.com writers received the 'sincere' and 'heartfelt' apology and said that nothing was wrong and they were perhaps now good friends with Stone and Parker because of the plagiarism.

Wait, what? South Park stole on purpose, got caught, said sorry, and every thing is hunky-dory? This goes against everything we learned! First of all, all of the articles we read blamed plagiarism mostly on not understanding what they were supposed to write, but the creators of South Park clearly knew the exact implementation of the joke. Second, we learned that it was wrong to steal somebody's ideas, but the writers unabashedly noted that they out and out took it. No coincidence, no 'we thought of it first', they just chose to take it. Third, we learned that if we are using something, cite it. The South Park writers blindly ignored this idea, deciding that a line in the credits wasn't worth trying.

And for all of these misdemeanors, what happened to them? They were forgiven after a little call and actually admired for apologizing. What a crazy world we live in that a massive production studio can outright steal from a smaller production studio, and no wrong is done, but a college student can take a line from a random article (neither of which are meant for profit) and be shunned from academia as a whole.

So, this week I have learned that I'm going into television, because anything goes if you throw a few sweet words around.Posted bypes44at8:00 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Sunday, October 31, 2010 Assignment #5Due 10/30

My vocabulary is swollen from all of the words that I have learned or learned how to implement in new ways via my English class readings. Unfortunately, if my vocabulary were to continue to swell, it would pop, and I'd become an invalid. So for the better of my mind and mouth, I have forgotten much of what I learned. But its for the best. Here are 5 semi-recent to fresh-out-of-the-oven new words I immensely enjoyed from my less enjoyable English readings.

1.) Salient - most noticeable or important
Salient is a fun word that can make your report sound much smarter in a snap. I plan to implement a good deal of salient facts and figures into my work to give my paper a larger than life and loud feeling. My paper, due to the salience of the information, will definitely be your most salient paper too. Just kidding...
http://www.salientsys.com/

2.) Pedagogy- the method and practice of teaching
This word interested me because there is just something so intriguing about the fact that books and instructional stories were teaching me about the method of teaching. Theres something so fun about being taught how to teach.
http://pedagogy.dukejournals.org/

3.) Snobbism - believing ones tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people
I didn't know that snobbism was a real word until I saw it used in the 33rd. And even then, I thought it was a 'hand-crafted' word (as in made up).
http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/discuss/72157624077178141/

4.) Anencephaly - a disease where a child will be born without a scalp, cerebellum or either brain hemisphere
Can anybody say, with a straight face, that they would not want to use the word Anencephaly as often as possible? Beyond that, its an exceedingly interesting disease - painful, horrible, and horrifying, but nonetheless intriguing. I am very glad the author chose to explain what it meant right after the word appears in the essay, otherwise I'd have gone to look it up and fall prey to the multitude of internet hyperlinks off this word.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/anencephaly/anencephaly.htm

5.) Eugenics - the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
Eugenics is another horrifying but interesting word. I wonder what the products of eugenics would do to the planet? Help? Hinder? Now that I am explaining why the word interests me, I remember learning about eugenics during the lessons I've had on the history of the Holocaust. I don't like this word anymore...
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/Posted bypes44at4:27 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, October 23, 2010 Assignment #4Due 10/23

Although my project still does not have a clear thesis, I am pushing along with research. You can never learn too much, no matter how little you retrieve your knowledge.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27out-t.html
The first article I found is from my greatest love, The New York Times. To quickly summarize, the article (or the parts that relate to my topic) tell the story of how a young boy had come out of the closet and his day to day frustrations with coming out and life after. I feel for the child because it was the exact same scenario that I was in earlier this year, and I think that could be a strong emotional start to my research paper to pull it out of the black and white and into a world of rainbow color (for lack of a better cliche). It is a strong coming out story that could be referenced multiple times because the juvenile perspective could do great things to the mood and tone of my essay. I like that it is very well written without being a scholastic article or journal because its informality allows the writing to retain a very light demeanor.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/14639/81249
No matter what people say, it takes a lot to come out of the closet at any age. While the media is watching your every move and making its own decisions about your life and what you choose to do behind closed doors, it can be much harder. It would be an interesting perspective to look deeper at people who come out later in life, and who may have to affirm their sexual identity in front of millions. Clearly, even between these two articles, I've noticed the depth of the topic I've chosen, and I really have to work this week on narrowing it down and finding out what I want to answer. In true nerdy fashion, I want to research and answer everything! But I clearly don't have that kind of time...Posted bypes44at8:39 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, October 16, 2010 Assignment #3Due 10/16

The spoken language is the heart of our society. A vital aspect of our civilization, language allows everyone to join as one cohesive unit. It connects our experiences, expresses our emotions, and and really is one of the greatest miracles of society (how often do you think about how verbose our language is, yet a few thousand years ago communication was little more than grunts, whistles and drawings). Words are funny - like widdershins-, words are serious - like cancer -, and words are powerful -like my number one word. Words are what make us human.

10.) Menagerie- Menagerie is a beautiful word. It rolls off the tongue like warm butter across bread. A menagerie is a collection of exotic items, and is the perfect word to epitomize my list, which is little more than a shabby collection of fun, beautiful, powerful, offensive, or interesting words.

9.) Flabbergasted- Flabbergasted, besides an amazing verb that should be used more often, is a very fun and light word. I am rather flabbergasted at its lack of use. It means to shock someone, but the word is shocking itself. It comes from the Latin flabber, which stands for a fat person, or being of enormous flab, and gast, which meant explosion, flabbergast is literally a massive shock.
[Just kidding]

8.) Teabaggers- Technically, Teabagger is a slang word. It is the word that the self proclaimed 'tea party' republicans coined for themselves, and is possibly the greatest jolt of irony this country has ever seen. For the confused, teabagging is the act of placing a mans genitalia on another unsuspecting man's face.

7.) Vitality-Meaning the state of being strong and active, vitality is a powerful word that denotes power. The sharp v and hard t allow vitality to sound strong while being a word meaning strong.The word is a simple but beautiful work of art.

6.) Persnickety- Do I need to explain this? Its a cool word, stop being so persnickety with the minutiae(I'd like to give minutiae an honorable mention here).

5.) Deluge- I first heard deluge in the song Apres Moi by Regina Spektor, and ever since I've used it as much as possible. Deluge is of French origin, and the French really know how to craft language. They should, after all, they have so many bad words its time they learned from their dumbass mistakes. Whoops, pardon my French.

4.) Love- What is love? My dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection". But it means something different to everybody. I love watching Kill Bill: Volume One, and I love my family. How can one word mean something so strong and yet two uses be so disparate without having a different meaning?

3.) Callipygian- Please look up what callipygian means. Its the most fun word in the history of ever, and yet it means something so zany. I'm glad that callipygian is a not a common term (that'd be weird).

2.) Mother- I just want to give a shout out to my mother. Its the greatest word ever. It means someone to look up to, someone you can trust, and someone who loves you unconditionally.

1.) Faggot- How taboo! One of the most contested words - can you say it, can't you say it? - it is nothing, and its slang has moved so far from any semblance of real meaning that it has become a formation of sounds that is meant solely to offend. Faggot is the embodiment of the power of words. As a young person, I was constantly mocked with the word faggot. It may have been meant to hurt me, but now that I am older, and I know the secret of words (they only mean what you want them to mean), I have taken it as a compliment. Its a reassurance that I am happy and stand up for who I am and what I believe in. Also, my best friend is a faggot, and I say that in the most loving way possible. But this harkens back to the question, 'what does love mean?', and back to the very root of this post - words are awesome, and powerful, and ever-changing. I love words.


EDIT: when checking, I noticed I called this assignment 2. It is really assignment 3.Posted bypes44at1:21 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)FollowersBlog Archive 2010(9) November(4)Assignment #9Assignment #8Assignment #7Assignment #6 October(5)About Mepes44View my complete profile

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